{"id":23795,"date":"2023-09-18T08:04:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/?p=23795"},"modified":"2023-09-18T08:04:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:04:34","slug":"voices-views-janelle-manlapas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/18\/voices-views-janelle-manlapas\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices &#038; Views: Janelle Manlapas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>By Juri Dagio | Staff Writer<\/h5>\n<p class=\"pb-2\" data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"1f750076-867c-412a-b0dd-3a2c49160be1\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Janelle Manlapas is a 26-year-old <span class=\"issue-underline underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 transition decoration-border-brand-default [.long-form-editing-active_&amp;]:decoration-border-brand-default\/50 hover:bg-bg-brand-light-default\" data-issueid=\"90e38a91-54d6-4400-b6b1-509dcc15d9bd\" aria-label=\"open issue for the following text student who was born\" data-testid=\"issue-underline:undefined\">student who was born<\/span> in Los Angeles, California. After moving to Hawai&#8217;i in 2022, she hoped to be able to enroll in the Nursing program at KCC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I already graduated from college [University of California] with an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major, and now I&#8217;m trying to pursue Nursing. So, I&#8217;m taking my pre-requisites &#8230; trying to get into the nursing program,&#8221; Manlapas said.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of four years, Manlapas worked in a laboratory. While she enjoyed her career in health sciences, she longed to develop a connection with those she was helping, so she wanted to become a nurse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be a registered nurse,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And potentially become a nurse practitioner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manlapas currently runs a small business on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/WiredWeirdCrafts?ref=shop-header-name&amp;listing_id=1310937425\">Etsy.com<\/a> selling crochet patterns, clothes, keychains, and other handcrafted items. Aside from sewing and crocheting, she also enjoys going to the beach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I walk to Magic Island in Ala Moana all the time, and I love going to North Shore,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Having only lived on O&#8217;ahu for a year and a half, Manlapas is in love with the people, the culture, the environment, and, of course, the relaxing weather here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Juri Dagio | Staff Writer Janelle Manlapas is a 26-year-old student who was born in Los Angeles, California. After moving to Hawai&#8217;i in 2022, she hoped to be able to enroll in the Nursing program at KCC. &#8220;I already graduated from college [University of California] with an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major, and now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":23796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices-views","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}